VETERAN CAR GUIDE
New Orleans This was a Belgian Vivinus voiturette built under licence in Orleans Road , Middlesex , by HG Burford and Dutchman Johannes Van Toll . The car had a front-mounted 3.5hp single cylinder engine with belt transmission to fast and loose pulleys on a countershaft and then by spur gears to the rear axle . A 6hp two-cylinder car was available at the end of 1900 , and in 1901 came a 7hp model with water cooling and three forward gears . Both tubular frames and flitch-plate chassis were used . For 1903 , there was a tubular-framed 9hp twin cylinder and a flitch plate 14hp four-cylinder range . It is possible that components were still sourced in Belgium from Vivinus .
Norfolk Only 12 Norfolk vehicles were made by A Blackburn & Company in Cleckheaton , Yorkshire , England . They were light cars with twin-cylinder 10hp or 12hp engines . There were three-speed gearboxes and chain drive , with two or four-seater coachwork . The company operated from 1904 to 1905 .
Northern Northern was founded in Detroit , Michigan USA by two ex-employees of the Olds Company – Charles Brady King and Jonathan Dixon Maxwell . Maxwell designed the first Northern , a single-cylinder Runabout similar to a Curved Dash Olds , but without the curved dash . About 300 were sold in 1903 , and then Maxwell left to work with Benjamin Briscoe .
Oldsmobile The Curved Dash Oldsmobile came about after Ransom Eli Olds had experimented with gas , electric and steam buggies at the end of the 19th century . It was developed in 1900 , the factory caught fire in March 1901 and all the various models were destroyed , save for one runabout . This was the only model to resume production when the factory was rebuilt . There are 3 basic Curved Dash models : the Model R 5 HP which was produced until 1904 , the Model 6C 7 HP which appeared during 1904 and the less often seen Model B 7 HP which succeeded the 6C and was made until 1907 . These models evolved as suppliers were changed . They were made variously in Lansing or Detroit , Michigan and assembled in other countries .
Orient The Waltham manufacturing company was founded in the 1890s with Charles Metz as chief designer . Cycles , motor bikes and some motor buggies were produced . In 1903 , with the company under new management , the Orient Motor Buckboard was produced . It was a very lightweight machine with little suspension and
1903 Oldsmobile
only a single speed , body work consisted of just a twin seat bolted to a wooden chassis with Hickory perches with cross strips of Ash bolted on to form a platform . Front springs were single leaf quarter elliptic , there were no rear springs , and the vehicle was started by pulling a leather strap . In late 1903 , a new model had full elliptic front springs , rear coil springs , a twospeed transmission , and crank starting . It apparently remained in production until 1907 . More conventional cars were also produced from 1905 .
Panhard et Levassor René Panhard met Emile Levassor as a student , and by 1872 they were working together . The factory in Paris produced a batch of four identical cars in 1891 , 15 in 1892 , 37 in 1893 and 41 in 1894 . This made Panhard et Levassor the world ’ s first marque of car in continuous production . Following Levassor ’ s early death in 1897 , Arthur Constantin Krebs joined the company as technical director and set about developing a new range of vehicles with balanced four-cylinder engines , raked steering columns , front-mounted radiators , improved carburettors , and a coil and battery ignition system . In 1899 Panhard introduced the A1 / A2 models fitted with Phénix engine of 4hp ( 1,201cc ) or 6hp ( 1,648 cc ). Initially these cars had larger rear wheels but by 1901 equal-sized wheels were available . In 1902 the new Centaure engine of the same size was introduced and designated the model A ( still with the two sizes of engine ). In 1903 , the Centaure S-series , with 10hp , 15hp , 18hp , 24hp , and 35hp output options , was offered with Eisemann magneto ignition and t-head construction with mechanical inlet valves .
Peerless Located in Cleveland , Ohio , the company launched the Peerless Motorette in 1901 with a choice of 2.75hp or 3.5hp De Dion Bouton engines . It was ill-suited to the rough American roads , leading to the design of a 12 / 16hp vertical twin cylinder-powered car the
54 The London to Brighton Veteran Car Run